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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.

Editor’s Notes: My Twitter friend, Steve Sisko (@ShimCode if you prefer), sent me his list of unofficial #HIT100 rankings and asked if I wanted to publish them. Always someone interested in a sneak peak at the final results, I was of course happy to publish his findings. Plus, it will be fun to compare them against @TheEHRGuy’s final list.

I made my feelings on the #HIT100 list quite clear in past years. I don’t feel any different now. The list as a whole is quite interesting and a great way to discover new and interesting people in healthcare IT. However, specific rank on the list is meaningless to me since it can easily be gamed. For example, if you nominate a lot of other people, then you’re very likely to get reciprocal nominations and be at the top of the list. Not to mention, with just my own Health IT related Twitter accounts I could get someone to the top 50 if I’d wanted. Although, I didn’t. I think I nominated two people who bought me chocolate shakes and cheesecake in the past. I guess you now know how to win me over.

What I think would be interesting is to dive into this list a little deeper and see who’s new, who dropped from the list and also to dive deeper into the story of the people on this list. Sounds like a good future project for my blogs. I might start with those on the bottom of the list.

Without further ado, enjoy the unofficial #HIT100 list.

For those who simply must know, here are the unofficial 2014 #HIT100 rankings.

Note: These are not the “official results” that should be coming from @TheEHRGuy. They were derived as and have the limitations listed below the table.

Unofficial Nominee

2014 Votes

2014 Rank

True 2014 Rank

2013 Rank

Comments

@Brad_Justus

58

1

1

3

@MandiBPro

49

2

2

9

@ahier

33

3

3

4

@EMRAnswers

33

4

3

5

@bhparrish

29

5

5

25

@Colin_Hung

28

6

6

79

@DodgeComm

28

7

7

80

@nrip

28

8

8

12

@HealthcareWen

27

9

9

1

@HITAdvisor

27

10

9

2

@PremierHA

27

11

9

#N/A

@JohnNosta

26

12

12

6

@OchoTex

24

13

13

18

@ReginaHolliday

24

14

14

7

@VinceKuraitis

23

15

15

38

@JennDennard

21

16

16

#N/A

@SmyrnaGirl – 15th

@TheEHRGuy

21

17

16

30

@2healthguru

20

18

18

13

@DonFluckinger

20

19

18

66

@Brian_Eastwood

19

20

20

53

@laurencstill

19

21

20

#N/A

@CDW_Healthcare

17

22

22

19

@drtom_kareo

17

23

22

#N/A

@ElinSilveous

17

24

22

23

@HITConsultant

17

25

22

28

@ShimCode

17

26

22

29

@techguy

17

27

22

20

@ColeFACHE

16

28

28

26

@GovHITeditor

16

29

28

35

@dz45tr

15

30

30

57

@GaryPalgon

15

31

30

17

@GoKareo

15

32

30

#N/A

@nxtstop1

15

33

30

#N/A

@DSSHealthIT

14

34

34

#N/A

@gerryweider

14

35

34

#N/A

@HealthcareMBA

14

36

34

#N/A

@drnic1

13

37

37

46

@Farzad_MD

13

38

37

#N/A

@Farzad_ONC – 21st

@KenOnHIT

13

39

37

36

@leonardkish

13

40

37

24

@MelSmithJones

13

41

37

#N/A

@Cascadia

12

42

42

41

@dirkstanley

12

43

42

34

@motorcycle_guy

12

44

42

10

@Paul_Sonnier

12

45

42

11

@wareFLO

12

46

42

#N/A

@westr

12

47

42

77

@giasison

11

48

48

#N/A

@healthythinker

10

49

49

70

@janicemccallum

10

50

49

39

@jennylaurello

10

51

49

#N/A

@JonMertz

10

52

49

22

@MichaelGaspar

10

53

49

#N/A

@danmunro

9

54

54

#N/A

@gnayyar

9

55

54

51

@RasuShrestha

9

56

54

#N/A

@drttsang

8

57

57

#N/A

@HITLeaders

8

58

57

#N/A

@JohnSharp

8

59

57

#N/A

@MightyCasey

8

60

57

#N/A

@Docweighsin

7

61

61

#N/A

@ePatientDave

7

62

61

47

@EricTopol

7

63

61

48

@Greg_Meyer93

7

64

61

#N/A

@HealthFusionKMc

7

65

61

#N/A

@lsaldanamd

7

66

61

#N/A

@NaomiFried

7

67

61

83

@askjoyrios

6

68

68

#N/A

@boltyboy

6

69

68

52

@dineshrs

6

70

68

#N/A

@ehrandhit

6

71

68

#N/A

@fredtrotter

6

72

68

49

@hjluks

6

73

68

89

@JBBC

6

74

68

#N/A

@jhalamka

6

75

68

42

@SusannahFox

6

76

68

45

@CancerGeek

5

77

77

#N/A

@carimclean

5

78

77

#N/A

@CyndyNayer

5

79

77

#N/A

@intakeme

5

80

77

#N/A

@john_chilmark

5

81

77

62

@kathymccoy

5

82

77

55

@KBDeSalvo

5

83

77

#N/A

@Lygeia

5

84

77

40

@mloxton

5

85

77

#N/A

@nursefriendly

5

86

77

#N/A

@nversel

5

87

77

44

@PracticalWisdom

5

88

77

31

@ShahidNShah

5

89

77

98

@skram

5

90

77

#N/A

@ThePatientSide

5

91

77

#N/A

@annelizhannan

4

92

92

65

@chasedave

4

93

92

54

@Christianassad

4

94

92

16

@cmaer

4

95

92

#N/A

@CMichaelGibson

4

96

92

#N/A

@danamlewis

4

97

92

#N/A

@DCPatient

4

98

92

#N/A

@haroldsmith3rd

4

99

92

#N/A

@HITNewsTweet

4

100

92

#N/A

Methodology and Disclaimers

This is an unofficial list.

Selected all tweets tagged with #HIT100 from 7/1/14 (12:00 EST) thru 7/8/14 (13:00 EST) that complied with the essence of the requested format and general rules.

Eliminated all duplicate votes made by the same person for the same nominee

Didn’t combine people with multiple Twitter accounts. Like @KathyMcCoy/@HealthFusionKMc and @techguy/@ehrandhit and

Didn’t exclude anyone who had less than 6 months on Twitter. That would take a little scripting or manual effort I don’t have right now.

Didn’t exclude anyone who isn’t “an active participant of both the #HealthIT and #HITsm channels” as I’m not sure how to determine that without being subjective.

Also, note that comparison to 2013 rankings has a few holes in it due to people changing their handles since 2013. Like @Farzad_MD /@Farzad_ONC and a couple others.

9 responses to "Unofficial 2014 #HIT100 Rankings"

BTW, with a couple exceptions due to name changes, you can see who’s new to the HIT100 list based on an “N/A’ in the column titled “2013 Rank.” Turns out @laurencstill is the highest ranked, new human/individual entrant to the list. I certainly think she’s deserving.

I have all kinds of interesting stats and seeing more as I play with the data. Perhaps I can share more if and when I have time to get more into the data.

Steve,
Thanks, but I’d argue that you were fast. I’m not sure how you got all this data together so quickly. All I did was copy and paste and add a few comments at the top. Although, I’ve posted a few blog posts in my life.

Good point about the N/A column. Maybe I’ll start my #HIT100 Feature posts there. @laurencstill is definitely deserving. Her and @juliewmaas were my great finds at HIMSS 2014.

Took me about 2 hrs in 15 minute chunks. And now I have the raw data cleaned up and plan to add/derive some metadata. I’ll probably post the data file this weekend. Trying to figure out how to use Twitters REST API to quickly get some additional quantitative stats like length of time on Twitter, number of followers each voter and nominee has, etc.

BS! I’m sure it’s just the patriarchal cis-driven sexism culture keeping me and Linda and….oh, guess it really is alphabetical. Nice work Steve. If you don’t want to mess with the Twitter API, look at kimonolabs to cheat and make your own. You can also do some limited scripting and websrapping through google docs/spreadsheet (and then pull that info with google app’s API, which is more stable), which is what I’ve been doing over the past few years, mostly cause I’m lazy. I prefer to defer to someone else’s methodology for the ranking portion.

What I really want to end up with is an interactive map that shows where HITsm people are based on current GPS, only defaulting to their location field if it’s not available. I really just need to dedicate a weekend to this.

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